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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By : Ramesh Waghmare
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By: Ramesh Waghmare

Overview of this book

AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 shows you exactly how to automate all the aspects of AWS. You can take advantage of the amazing power of the cloud, yet add powerful scripts and mechanisms to perform common tasks faster than ever before. This book expands on the Amazon documentation with real-world, useful examples and production-ready scripts to automate all the aspects of your new cloud platform. It will cover topics such as managing Windows with PowerShell, setting up security services, administering database services, and deploying and managing networking. You will also explore advanced topics such as PowerShell authoring techniques, and configuring and managing storage and content delivery. By the end of this book, you will be able to use Amazon Web Services to automate and manage Windows servers. You will also have gained a good understanding of automating the AWS infrastructure using simple coding.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

The EC2 instance purchasing options

AWS offers several purchasing options to the customer and allow customers to choose the best option that fits their workload. Almost every customer goes for a mix of purchasing options, which allows you to save a lot and satisfy the workload requirements.

On-demand

This is the first default option that usually customers start with on AWS. Under this purchasing option, you pay for the compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments. You spin up the EC2 instance when you need it and destroy it when you are done. You only get charged for the time that you use the compute capacity. This option is very attractive to support spiky workloads or when you do not have any clarity on the...